Dunno, usually put that into a dropper bottle and take a dropper full at a time..

If I was diagnosed with Aureus and had a hollow leg the last thing I would do is skimp on dosage..

As for the poultice I would run it through the food processor and apply. Why worry about the alcohol no more than a half a glass of wine for an all day dosing..

Funny what people worry about.. its almost as if a Demon had your ear..

I used Vassoline as I was instructed when I took the wart off my neck with black salve. And I had a big hole like yours, only it was in my neck. They told me to scrub the edges with a Q tip dipped in Hydrogen Peroxide. I would do that twice a day and re-apply the vassoline.

If it were me, I would not hesitate to megadose with the Blue Vervain. But I frequently err on the side of doing too much.

I put my herbs in a little electric coffee bean grinder and then I sift them through a fine tea strainer to get the sticks out. Makes a nice very fine powder.

I bet that gunk will clog the blender. But it might work if you added some vitamin E oil. Or it might turn into plastic. Ha ha, but maybe not too far-fetched.

I don't know what to do about evaporating alcohol. That poultice might sting if you don't.

Sorry for butting in.

vaseline... ?? Don't you have virgin coconut oil? Why use capsules? treat it as a food...
Here is what I do since I have V. hastata growing on one side of my house (and doing fine!) I picked two leaves starting today and added them to my morning green juice (started may the 2nd) fyi mainly dandelion leaves and pieces of root, stinging nettle, sorrel, fennel ferns, lovage, and whatever other green that I care for and may forget for now (like a banana or piece of avocado) I add frozen pineapple chunks as much as I need to make this palatable, add 5 or 10 grams of vit C + citric acid.

Getting out in the garden every morning can be a spiritual act also as one takes living parts of plants and say thank you for these wonders, my heart spreads out to whole mother earth in gratefulness...

This is not a recipe, let it be an inspiration towards a better healing and health overall,

We used to make cranberry cocktails with our verbenas: officinalis and hastata. But if you want to avoid the alcohol, you can always use very hot water over the tincture. Blessings on you and your family.

Tincture in capsules? The visual is not unlike putting toothpaste back into tube :)

As far as ingesting Vervain tincture, unless you have an aversion to alcohol even in minute quantity, just put two droppers in your mouth, swish under tongue a while, swallow and chase with a little water, repeat throughout day accordingly. If the taste is overtly bitter ..... tough noogies, grin and bear it. Probably would not hurt to do whatever you do to make sure liver and kidneys are helping you .... flushes, CE, plenty of fluids, etc

Alternately, make a cup of hot V tea with appropriate amount of the dried herb and when done steeping and strained, drink the cup but also add the spent herb along with some unused herb into your poultice mixture. Slippery Elm makes an ideal base for a drawing poultice to be left on a day or two, can be found in a 16 oz jar fairly cheap at any HFS worthy of the name. If you still have oozing/drainage/puss coming out, you are not past the stage for poultice being helpful. The thing with poultice used for serious wounds is being willing to apply it, wrap and leave it on undisturbed for 24 to 48 hours at a clip. The tendency is to be curious and constantly peeking poking to look at the wound. If you apply a large enough quantity and wrap appropriately it will remain moist and drawing for a few days no problem. Whether or not it dries some, if you can leave it on 24 to 48, plan on using a warm soak, perhaps in tub, when it comes time to remove any of the clinging bits of poultice gunk. This cuts down on disturbing wound. Instead of soak, you could make a spray/ squirt bottle with warm tea to help rinse away gunk.

Also, I would treat it somewhat like a burn which is to say, DO NOT regularly was/scrub the wound to "make clean". Doing that washes away and otherwise disrupts the body's natural healing/lymph process. This is first among the worst mistakes mainstream methodology routinely applies to serious wounds burned and not. Yes, at some point the wound will need air to dry and close but that probably needs to be after the puss, venom, infection , MRSA is gone.